GIVING A PRESENTATION

1. INTRODUCTION

GREETINS -Good morning/afternoon ladies and gentlemen.

-(Ladies and) gentlemen…

SUBJECT -I plan to say a few words about…

-I’m going to talk about…

-The subject of my talk is…

-The theme of my presentation is…

-I’d like to give you an overview of…

STRUCTURE -I’ve divided my talk into (3) parts.

-My talk will be in (3) parts.

-I’m going to divide…

-First… -Second… -Third…

-In the first part… -Then in the second part…

-Finally…

TIMING -My talk will take about ten minutes.

-The presentation will take about two hours… but there will be a 20 min. break in
the minute. We will stop for lunch at 12.

POLICY ON -Please, interrupt if you have any questions.

QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION
-After my talk, there will be time for a discussion and any questions.
2. MAIN BODY-SIGNALLING DIFFERENT PARTS

ENDING THE So that concludes the introduction.

INTRODUCTION
That’s all for the introduction.

BEGINNING THE MAIN Now let’s move to the first part of my talk, which is about…
BODY
So, first… To begin with…

LISTING There are 3 things to consider. First… Second… Third…

There are two kinds of… The first is… The second is…

We can see 4 advantages and 2 disadvantages. First, advantages.

One is… Another is… A third advantage is… Finally…

On the one hand… On the other hand…

LINKING That completes/concludes…

That’s all (I want to say for now) on…

Let’s move to (the next part which is)…

So now we come to…

Now I want to describe…

SEQUENCING There are (7) different stages to the process: first/then/next/after that/then/last…

There are two steps involved: first step is… second step is…

There are four stages to the project.

At the beginning, later, then, finally…

I’ll describe the development of the idea.

First the background, then the present situation, and then the prospects for the future.
3. CONCLUSION

ENDING THE MAIN BODY Right, that ends the (3rd part of) my talk.

That’s all I want to say for now on…

BEGINNING THE SUMMARY I’d like to end by emphasizing the main point(s).

I’d like to finish with…

A summary of the main points.

Some observations based on what I’ve said.

Some conclusions/recommendations.

A brief conclusion.

CONCLUDING There are two conclusions/recommendations.

What we need is…

I think we have to…

I think we have seen that we should…

INVITING QUESTIONS OR That concludes my talk. Thanks for listening. Now I’d like to invite your comments.
INTRODUCING DISCUSSION
Now we have (30 minutes) for questions and discussion.

Right. Now, any questions or comments?

So, now I’d be very interested to hear your comments.

4. DEALING WITH QUESTIONS

UNDERSTOOD BUT That’s a difficult question to answer in a few words.

DIFFICULT OR IMPOSSIBLE
TO ANSWER It could be… /I would say… /In my experience…

I don’t think I’m the right person to answer that. Perhaps Mr. X…

I don’t have much experience in that field…

UNDERSTOOD BUT I’m afraid that’s outside the scope of my talk/this session. If I were you I’d discuss with…
IRRELEVANT OR
IMPOSSIBLE TO ANSWER IN -I’ll have to come to that later, perhaps during the break, as we’re short of time.
THE TIME AVAILABLE

NOT UNDERSTOOD Sorry, I’m not sure I’ve understood. Could you repeat?

Are you asking if…? Do you mean…? I didn’t catch your question.

If I have understood you correctly, you mean…? Is that right?

CHECKING THAT YOUR Does that answer your question?

ANSWER IS SUFFICIENT
Is that right? Does it make any sense to you?
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PLANNING AND INTRODUCTION

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